Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are definitely working on it. As the Deputy can imagine, I could recite a similar list for my constituency and I believe most Members in the House could do likewise. We have a massive school building programme at the moment. It is great to go into some of those new schools and see how well built they are and the level of services that are available. It reminds one of how old some of our school buildings are and how much investment we need. It is never the case that we can do every project we would like to do in any one year. They have to be timelined in the context of financial and planning constraints. We must also consider the availability of contractors because of all the things being built in the country at the moment. The Ministers, Deputies Donohoe and Foley, are working at the moment to see how we can speed up capital programmes generally, and not just when it comes to education, although that is a particular area. In fairness, the Department of Education spends its capital budget every year and spends it very well.

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